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   taco (shell) 🐧 :crt_prompt:​ (taco@furry.engineer)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 13:12:44 JST taco (shell) 🐧 :crt_prompt:​

   can someone convince me why #php is good actually

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     Larry Garfield (crell@phpc.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 13:12:41 JST Larry Garfield

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     @taco In it's niche (server side web), PHP has an incredibly robust ecosystem, the strongest type system of any interpreted language, the best or second best package manager (competing with Cargo), and is either the fastest or second fastest interpreted language depending on what you're testing. (JS is the competition there.) It scales horizontally better than any other architecture. And its "it just works" factor is second only to Go. It's also very easy to learn.

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     taco (shell) 🐧 :crt_prompt:​ (taco@furry.engineer)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 13:12:42 JST taco (shell) 🐧 :crt_prompt:​

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     • Larry Garfield

     @Crell a little bit of both, but mostly genuine. i keep seeing frameworks like laravel pop up in web development and we use it at work in some of our microservices so i'm interested in knowing why it's attractive as a language/how performant it is compared to something like rails

     dansup and Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} repeated this.
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     Larry Garfield (crell@phpc.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 13:12:43 JST Larry Garfield

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     @taco Are you actually asking or just trolling?